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...available as part of the three-disc set Max Allan Collins' Black Box). "I think he's a phenomenon in regard to the whole explosion of the mass-market paperback, and was probably its first great star." Spillane's popularity spawned a generation of tough-guy, "paperback-original" novelists - Jim Thompson, Charles Williams and a raft of others whose works were filmed by the French New Wave directors...
...Jim Wiandt, a co-author of the first book about ETFs and publisher of website IndexUniverse.com says, "On its face, the daily volume of gold ETFs represents a drop in the bucket for the world market. But markets are reactionary to news, and there's no question that when the first gold ETF [GLD] came out, the market moved...
...disagree with the time we were allowed to talk,” said Jim R. Straub, the Coordinator for State Parks for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, adding that he felt the crowd would have been willing to stay longer if it meant more of their questions would be addressed. He was disappointed with the “sound bites” and “fuzzy comments” that the candidates were forced to give under the time constraints, he said...
...most powerful penny opponent is Republican Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe, who keeps pushing his Legal Tender Modernization Act. He's very concerned about the coming penny Armageddon. "At some point you'll find a burgeoning business of people melting them down to metal," says Kolbe, "and selling them back to the Mint for more pennies." Kolbe, who advocates rounding to the nearest nickel, argues that parking meters, Laundromats, transit systems and vending machines don't accept pennies. Merchants hate them and won't let you pay for things with a stack of them. They pile up or get thrown away...
...makes it a little more opaque for us on the admissions side, but we fully understand it," said Jim Miller, director of admissions at Brown University. "It's conceivable a student could get a B in gym and get knocked down 40 places in rank. So we're getting more used to it, and probably half our applicants now come from schools that don't have rank. You just have to ascertain, through student profiles and other means, the strength of a schedule and student performance relative to other students...